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National Aeronautics
and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas 77058 |
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Biographical Data |
JOSEPH M. ACABA
NASA Astronaut
PERSONAL DATA:€а Born in 1967 in Inglewood, California, and raised in Anaheim, California, where his parents, Ralph and Elsie, still reside.€а Enjoys outdoor activities, such as camping, hiking, biking, kayaking and scuba diving.€а
EDUCATION: €аEsperanza High School, Anaheim, California, 1985; Bachelor of Science in Geology, University of California - Santa Barbara, 1990; Master of Science in Geology, University of Arizona, 1992
ORGANIZATIONS:€а International Technology Education Association, Florida Association of Science Teachers, Association of Space Explorers
EXPERIENCE:€а United States Marine Corps, Reserves.€а Worked as a hydro-geologist in Los Angeles, California, primarily on Superfund sites, and was involved in the assessment and remediation of groundwater contaminants.€а Spent two years in the United States Peace Corps as an Environmental Education Awareness Promoter in the Dominican Republic.€а Manager of the Caribbean Marine Research Center at Lee Stocking Island in the Exumas, Bahamas.€а Taught one year of high school science at Melbourne High School, Florida, and four years of middle school math and science at Dunnellon Middle School, Florida.
NASA EXPERIENCE:€а Selected as a mission specialist by NASA in May 2004.€а In February 2006, he completed astronaut candidate training that included scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in shuttle and International Space Station systems, physiological training, T-38 flight training and water and wilderness survival training.€а Upon completion of his training, Acaba was assigned to the Hardware Integration Team in the Space Station Branch, working technical issues with European Space Agency (ESA) hardware.€а He was also a member of the Space Shuttle Branch, supporting shuttle launch and landing preparations at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.€а
SPACEFLIGHT EXPERIENCE:€а STS-119 Discovery (March 15 to March 28, 2009) was the 125th shuttle flight, the 36th flight of Discovery and the 28th shuttle flight to the International Space Station.€а The primary objective of this flight was to deliver the final pair of power-generating solar array wings and truss element to the International Space Station.€а Acaba accumulated 12 hours and 57 minutes of extravehicular activity (EVA) in two spacewalks.€а STS-119 returned to land at the Kennedy Space Center, having traveled 202 orbits and 5.3 million statute miles in 12 days, 19 hours and 29 minutes.
Expedition 31/32 launched at 9:01 a.m. Baikonur time on May 15, 2012, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.€а Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Acaba landed their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 8:52 a.m. Kazakhstan time on September 17, 2012. €аAcaba spent 123 days aboard the station as a Flight Engineer of the Expedition 31 and 32 crews. €аAcaba supported the arrival of the first commercial resupply spacecraft, SpaceX's Dragon, in late May; an undocking, re-docking and final undocking demonstration of the Russian International Space Station Progress 47 cargo ship; the first single-day launch-to-docking demonstration of Progress 48 and the arrival and departure of the third Japanese cargo ship, HTV3.€а Acaba served as intra-vehicular crew member for two U.S.-based spacewalks, helping to restore a critical power unit and exchange a faulty camera on the stationтАЩs robotic arm. €аAcaba also participated in numerous scientific research experiments and performed regular maintenance and operational tasks aboard the orbiting complex. €а
Acaba has logged a total of 138 days in space during two missions.
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SEPTEMBER 2012